Pocket-book frame



(No Model.) T. MANN POCKET BOOK FRAME.

No. 453,823. Patented June 9, 1891.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE R. \VEIDEMANN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PEUNSYLVANIA.

POCKET-BOOK FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,823, dated June 9,1891.

Application filed December 29, 1890. Serial No. 376,022. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, THEODORE R. WEIDE- MANN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Book Frames,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to supportirig-frames for pocketbooks, cabas,travelingbags, satchels, and other like articles; and it consists of amultiple-jointed metallic frame for rigidly supporting in position theinterior compartments of a pocket-book, caba, &c., and of an automaticlocking device combined with said frame and adapted to lock either orboth of said compartments at pleasure.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in whichsimilar letters of ref erence refer to like parts in the several views,Figure 1 is anend view of a pocket-book containing a single-jointedcompartinent-frame as the same is now constructed and intended toillustrate the present state of the art. Fig. 2 is a like view of apocket-book provided with my improved interior multiple-jointed framefor two compartments. Fig. 3 is an end and side view in perspective,with the top flap of the pocket-book thrown back in order to show themultiple-jointed frame closed and in locked position. Fig. 4 is a topView of my multiple-jointet'l frame extended and in a fiat position, thesidebars D D being reduced in size. Fig. 5 is an end view of amodification thereof, in which the lateral arms D D are hinged upon asingle bearing in the longitudinal bar G. Fig. 0 is a top view of thelocking device adapted toamultiple-jointed frame for two compartmentsandshowing in dotted lines the springs controlling the locks, and Fig. 7 isa vertical sectional view of the same through the line a: so of Fig. 5.

Interior compartments in pocketbooks, cabas, and the like, representedby the leather walls B B B of Fig. l, have heretofore been constructedby supporting said walls upon a single-jointed metallic frame 0 0,(shown in said figure) jointed at G at their bases, and locked at thetop by any well-known locking device, suchas (Shownin said figureofthedrawings.) Such construction and frame is capable of forming but asingle pocket or compartment.

My improved multiple-jointed frame, as shown inv Fig. 9 in positionwithin the pocketbook, forms two contiguous pockets or compartments,supporting, in addition to the two usual interim-leather walls of thepocket-book, an additional intermediate and subdividing leather wall,and said frame consists (see Fig. l) of a central longitudinal fixed barG, two lateral connecting-armsD D, jointed orhinged thereto at G on eachside and at each end of said central bar G, and two longitudinal sidebars F F, each having rigidly secured thereto at each endinwardly-extending lateral arms D D, hinged to said arms D by apivot-joint, as shown at E in said figure. As shown in Fig. 5, thelateral arms D D may be hinged to the central longitudinal bar G by asingle bearing G, both being mounted on the same pivot-shaft instead ofon separate shafts G G. (Shown-in the other figures of the drawings.)The pocket or compartment formed by the leather walls B B (see Fig. 2 issubdivided longitudinally by a central leather wall B supported betweenthe end walls B of the pocket-book, the longitudinal bars F F of theframe supporting the said longitudinal leather walls B B, the centrallongitudinal bar G supporting the central leather wall 13 and thelateral arms D Don either lateral side of the pocket-book and betweenthe compartments formed by the dividing central wall B supporting inposition the said leather walls B B of the two compartments thus formedin the pocketbook. By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the armsD I) D D are so proportioned and arranged relatively to each other thatthe longitudinal bars F,F,and G,when brought together, (see Fig. 3,)will be parallel to each other and in the same horizontal plane andimmediatelybeneath the locking device II II. The lock or catch ll 1" orholding together in a closed position the two compartments or pocketsthus formed consists, as shown in Figs. 5 and U, of two narrow metallicflaps or cars II II of sufficient breadth when placed together back toback to overlap the three supporting-bars F F G when the same arebrought together in the position shown in Fig, 3. These flaps or ears HII are placed back to back and let into a recess on the upper surface ofthe bar G of the frame, where they are hinged bybeing supported from oneside in such recess upon a small shaft h, let into the same and into thesaid recess formed in the bar G, and supported on the other side by atwisted wire it, one end of which is rigidly secured in the ear H andthe other in the bar G, so that the movement of the ear H upon the shafth in the direction shown by the arrows in Fig. 6 will twist the wire tand cause a tension which will automatically bring the ear H to itsnormal position when released by the fingers. In order to lock thecompartments, the said ears H H are recessed on the under surface andthe said bars F F are provided with littlepins or projections n, whichthus form a catch or a lock within the said recess of the ear II whenthe latter is bars F F, having fixed lateral arms D D at each endthereof, said lateral arms D D and D D being united at their lower endsby a pivot-joint E, said parts being constructed and arranged relativelyto each other in order that the said longitudinal bars F F G, when I 7brought together, will be parallel with each other and in the samehorizontal plane, substantially as described.

2. A multiple-jointed frame for rigidly supporting two contiguousinterior compartments of a pocket-book or other like article, consistingof a stationary central longitudinal bar G, two lateral arms D D, hingedthereto on each side and at each end thereof, two other longitudinalbars F F, having fixed lateral arms D on each side thereof, said lateralarms of the bars F and G being united at their lower ends by apivot-joint E, in combination with the longitudinal leather walls 13 B Band end wall B of a pocket-book, and with means for securing the same attheir upper edges to said supportingframe, substantially as described. 7Y

3. A multiple-jointed pocket-book frame consisting of two longitudinalbars F F, provided with lateral fixed arms D on each side thereof, acentral longitudinal bar G, with lateral arms D hinged thereto on eachside and at each end thereof and to the lateral arms D of the bars F F,said parts being constructed and arranged relatively to each other inorder that the said bars F F G, when brought together, will be paralleland in the same horizontal plane, and a locking device supported withinthe central longitudinal bar G and adapted to adjustably hold the bars FF when brought in contact therewith, substantially as described.

at. In a supporting-frame consisting of three longitudinal bars F F G,connected by laterally-extending hinged arms, whereby said longitudinalbars are capable of being brought together in the same horizontal andparallel planes, a locking device consisting of two overlapping hingedears H H, placed back to back and mounted upon shafts 71, having theirbearings within a recess in the longitudinal bar G, and a springtbetween said bar G and the ears H, whereby the latter, when partiallyrotated on its shaft, will tend to return to its normal horizontalposition, substantially as described.

5. In a supporting-frame consisting of three longitudinal bars F F G,connected by laterally-extending hinged arms, whereby said longitudinalbars are capable of being brought together in horizontal and parallelplanes, a locking device consisting of two overlapping hinged ears H H,placed back to back and mounted upon shafts 71, having their bearingsWithin a recess in the longitudinal bar G, and a spring 25 between saidbar G and the ear H, whereby the latter, when partially rotated on itsshaft, will tend to return to its normal hori- Zontal position, and saidlongitudinal bars F F being provided with pins or projections n, adaptedto fit in a recess in the under surface of the ears H when the saidparts are brought in contact with each, other, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto at fixed my signature this 23d dayof December, A. D. 1890.

THEODORE R. IVEIDEMANN.

Witnesses:

A. T. FENTON, C. V. BECK.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 453,823, granted June9, 1891, upon the application of Theodore R. Weidermann, ofPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, for on improvement in Pocket-Book Frames, anerror appears in the printed specification requiring correction, asfollows: In line 30, page 2, the comma after the word respectivelyshould be stricken out and the word of inserted instead; and that thesaid Letters Patent should he read with this correction therein that theSELlllG inn-y conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 30th day of Jane, A. D. 1891.

GEO. CHANDLER, First Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

[SEAL] Oonntersigned G. E. MITCHELL,

Commissioner" of Patents.

